you are such a piece of work.Quote:
Originally Posted by N.O.T
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you are such a piece of work.Quote:
Originally Posted by N.O.T
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Originally Posted by Rallyper
Because traditionnal french Mafia is watching for them :D
I'm sure that if JML had finished the stage and taken 20+ seconds out of Hirvenon all of you who are criticising him would be singing a different tune. We are lucky to have a driver who's able, and prepared, to drive on the limit and raise the hairs on our necks.
Sometimes it doesn't work out. That's the price of a little excitement.
One of a kind.Quote:
Originally Posted by logic
And so are you!Quote:
Originally Posted by logic
I just hope since Latvala is behind now, unless Petter Ott and Matt all step asides for Latvala, that Malcolm would finally both the pair fight for victory. I know its different with Loeb, but manu title is still possible.
on Twitpic Car doesnt look so bad ...
Not gonna happen , he is out of the rally , FIA deemed the cage to be unsafe to continue.Quote:
Originally Posted by tmx
or more likely they made their cars of some military über top secret material that look/feels/weighs just likeQuote:
Originally Posted by Tom206wrc
regular car metal but is like 1000 times stronger. ;)
To push on that long stage was pointless all along... even if he was 1 minute faster than the cruising citroens, he would not have any tyres left to fight in the power stage...Quote:
Originally Posted by sollitt
it was a stupid mistake from whatever point you look at it...
Perkeleen perkele.
I think it could help for some time, but if the organizators don't control the rally drivers limit speed during the reece it will be matter of time to have the same problems in other places, from my personal point of view, to fix the problem root they have to find the way to avoid accidents during the reece, as i told you before, may be they should close the rally road during the reece, other choice could be taken by the fia, making sporting penalties (in time, no money) for rally drivers who don't respect reece speed limits using the gps system to prove they passed to fast in some place, by other hand Mexican rally organizators should be pay for damages done on the belonging of people who lives inside of the rally roads to avoid hard feelings, but to be honest, that is so far to happen, because rally organizators only say "any accident during the reece is responsability of the rally driver if they don't respect speed limits", that is their easy exit of the problem.Quote:
Originally Posted by 6789
I will give you another example, now about angry spectators, (me included), I have to put clear that of course i love the rally, and I would never do nothing against rally drivers because I understand some times **** happens, but other people do not think in the same way, on SS5, (same stage than SS9) I suffered a little accident following silly marshall orders.
I arrived 1 hour before the competitors pass but police did not allow me get in the spectators parking lot with my car arguing that they were following orders, i had to park my charromovil on the tarmac motorway and they let me pass walking, I walked 2.2 kilometers on the road, but arriving to the end of the stage, marshalls did not allow me continue walking on rally road even when there was 30 minutes remaining to the cero car pass, marshalls order to me walk out the rally road, but it was more dangerous walk over irregular surfase, and that stupid criteria was applied to every person, (including Latvala's Father and his Friends), if you wanted to see the cars before the end of the stage you have to escalate (climb) the montain, it was more dangerous than avoid the risk to be hit for a car that was 30 minutes away to pass for the place that i was!, so the problem was that I felt by accident in the stones, I hurt a lot, i took me several minutes to get up again, and the same marshall that did not allow me continue walking on rally road send a police that saw what happend to me, but he came to me smiling and asking to me " what happen? ", I got so anger and i did not acept the police man "help" even I recognize i insulted both, policeman and marshall that saw everyting, now i recognize i shouldn't done that, i offer apologies to them, but i lost my head because i got so angry.
Nothing happend to me, (only a heavy fall) but my camara got damage, from my point of view, rally organizators should pay the fixing of my photo camera, because i suffered the little accident following their silly instructions, but I know they are not going to pay for nothing (same case to the damage on belonging of people that live inside of rally route), even if the rally organizators pay my camera fixing the damage is done, I've tryed to recover all my pictures that I took on Day 1 but compact flash memory got damage too, and all my effort to take my own pictures was lost, and i lost the chance to continue taking pictures on day 2 and day 3, that hurts me more that the hit, I was wondering if me, or any person would have a serious accident following stupid instructions to climb difficult stones shouldn't be blame the rally organizators?
That's an argument, but it's the usual "Sunday driving" of an event where the guys ahead can give him nearly a minute and still be secure in their positions and manage to get to the finish without any excitement.Quote:
Originally Posted by sollitt
If he had managed to finish 20 seconds ahead then I would say well done to him, but I think it would take more than that to impress me....
Miss Karlsson didn't reach the end of SS22 ;(
Edit: she lost 28 minutes in fact :mark:
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Originally Posted by EightGear
Jesus has got nothing to do with it.
Is there LIVE video to Power Stage?
Power stage running :cool:
Well sollitt the problem is that it would not have mattered. JML would still have been a minute and half behind Hirvonen but with very worn tires.Quote:
Originally Posted by sollitt
For the championship pov it would have been much better if JML would have guarded his 3rd and conserved his tires for the power stage.
In the end it would have been much much larger benifit then taking 20-30 seconds from a lead that was almost 2 minutes.
Of course JML should've pushed if he would have been like 30-40 seconds behind Hirvonen. But he wasn't in this case.
And we all like drivers that can drive fast but they also need to be able to decide when its wiser to back off then to push.
Since this is rally and they don't award points to drivers with a hairrising driving style but only to those who actually show up at the finish line.
If you want a sport that awards style rather then results try high diving or some of the freestyle skiing events.
Ramona finished now!
Stagetime on SS22 - 1:05:06.5!
She did but had lots of problems towards the end it seems. over 10 min behind the second to last slowest time.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tom206wrc
FFS Jari sort your head out! Hes so bloody fast, but one slip of the mind like in Monte and thats it game over!
Well done Ott! Nice performance throughout the weekend from him.
Wonder if PSolberg will push or if he is asked to play it safe to collect Manu points?
Ostberg on par with Tanak at the end.
Soon, Solberg, Hirvonen and Loeb will get their Power Stage times ;)
the Manufacturer title is lost...Quote:
Originally Posted by MikeD
Expect Loeb Mikko 1-2 at power stage
That's a good one.Quote:
Originally Posted by Marre
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Originally Posted by RAS007
Haha, yes I know, I'm sorry. Just a bit frustrated.
Nobre is stopped on Stage 23. Outside the right hand corner approximately 2 km from the start
No risks from Hirvonen...
One of the guys on WRR, when talking about Solberg on the Power Stage, just said 'there will be a very good atmosphere in the Ford camp, and a good party tonight'........I don't think so. I'm not sure that Peter's Power Stage win will make them feel any better about Latvala's disaster. What planet is he on?
PS wins PS
2 points for Seb.Well done
Petter wins Power Stage and 3rd Overall...
Ahhh great day. Double win for Yvan Muller in WTCC and a Loeb win in WRC. Can't ask for more :D
How can JML be leading driver, 3 starts/2 DNFs?!
Solberg wins the Power Stage ;)
I would agree. I think Malcolm needs to move Petter to team leader, he may not be faster, but is more consistent by far.Quote:
Originally Posted by Barreis
...and 21 points behind his team-mate. Let's hope Petter takes over as team-leader.Quote:
Originally Posted by Barreis